PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The National Weather Service says there is no tsunami threat following a magnitude 5.5 earthquake off the Oregon coast.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 4:35 a.m. about 175 miles southwest of Eugene, Oregon, at a depth of about 6 miles in the Pacific Ocean.
The earthquake occurred in the Blanco Fracture Zone, a seismically active area where hundreds of earthquakes occur each year…